LinkedIn API - Server 500 Error

Question

We are using the LinkedIn connections API to return a list of connections for a user. A specific user has over 2000 connections and we there have to use paging to return connections past 500.

On the third call where my paging is start=800 count=500 we now get a HTTP 500 error

The request is:

https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/connections:(id,first-name,last-name,formatted-name,public-profile-url,picture-url::(original),headline,industry)?oauth2_access_token=**token**&format=json&start=800&count=500

The error return is:

{
 "errorCode": 0,
 "message": "Internal service error",
 "requestId": "2JBK4Q1PJV",
 "status": 500,
 "timestamp": 1424849048682
}

If I change the request to the previous point in the page (i.e. set start=300 and count=500 it works.

This issue has only started in the last few days and I have checked the throttling. It used to work before that.

I'm seeing the same errors since a few days ago, about the same time as when LinkedIn announced a change in their developer program. — mahboudz
I have a contacted LinkedIn directly (long shot). Will share what I hear. — Craig Champion

mahboudz mahboudz · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-25T09:53:37

I got it working again by reducing the number of contacts I am requesting each time from 500 to 250, and do multiple rounds until I get all the contacts.

https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/connections:(public-profile-url)?start=0&count=250&modified=updated

LinkedIn API - Server 500 Error

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